We hope you enjoyed this video as much as we enjoyed our time exploring Colombo! Welcome to our channel and thanks for watching. 🙏 Here is the link to our entire Sri Lanka series, so keep watching as there will be many more videos to come from this amazing country!! ❤🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Travel: th-cam.com/play/PLCmNbKU5iMrm1426S5ltprrISCZunP-BF.html
As a British Sri lankan, I watch many Sri Lankan vlogger videos and you are right there!!!Excellent!!! Thank you for showing around my country. I live in Poland, so its nice to see your videos
That's so great to hear that you got a lot of pleasure from this video. 😍. There will many more covering many other parts of Sri Lanka during our 7 weeks travelling there. We hope you enjoy them too. 🙏❤️ We spent 4 months in Krakow during the beginning of covid in 2020 and loved it there. 😁
18:03 Viharamahadevi park used to be Victoria Park back then named after Queen Victoria, they even had a statue of Queen Victoria which was replaced by the Golden Lord Buddha Statue in 1958.
Wow 😳 That is so interesting to learn. Thank you for sharing with us. 🙏. I love it when local people teach us new things. 😊 The Buddha statue is very beautiful. Now I have to learn to say Viharamahadevi because I found it very difficult. 🤣 Thanks for the information. 🙏❤️🇱🇰
The building and church architecture is beautiful. I would be nervous crossing the streets. 😂 A lot of people in Colombo speak English. The price for food and electronic stuff is very reasonable. Mandy and Lee, thank you for sharing the fun and informative video. ❤
Hi Sue 👋😊 Yes it's such a fascinating place with amazing architecture and a really interesting mix of religions. The level of education is high so many people speak English thankfully. 🙏 Prices are incredibly reasonable here so it is really a paradise for the frugal traveller. ❤️🎉🇱🇰❤️
Hello 😃 I’ve just discovered your channel & I am so pleased to see my beautiful Sri Lanka on TH-cam ! I grew up in this beautiful country; Lived 18 beautiful years on this incredible island, and even though I am not Sri Lankan by blood, I am definitely Sri Lankan by heart ❤️ Cannot wait to see what you’ll be exploring next ! I’m sure you’ll love it! Have fun & stay safe 😊 Emilie x
Hi Emilie and welcome to our channel. 👋. It makes us so happy to know people get a lot out of watching our videos when they watch them. I can understand how you can feel Sri Lankan at heart. It's such a wonderful country. 💕🇱🇰. We are making many more videos of our adventures here so keep watching and we are sure that you will enjoy them. 😍 Best wishes, Lee and Mandy ❤️
Thank you so much, Julie, and welcome to our channel! It was lovely to see you in the Premiere today, and we really appreciate your positivity and your wonderful feedback! There are loads more Sri Lanka videos to come, and we hope you enjoy them 🤗♥️🇱🇰
Thank you 🙏. We love to explore the back streets of a place and always look for something different. Travelling slowly allows you to go a little deeper. 😍. We were really surprised about how nice Colombo is. 😊👍
Here before watching the video but I already can tell it's gonna be a nice one I remember watching Harald Baldr videos on markets I believe also Sri Lanka ones, funny and interesting.
Hello Pocahoetaz 👋 It's always so lovely to see your comments. I haven't watched those videos but I'm sure they're very entertaining as Sri Lankan markets are so full on. I hope you enjoy this one 🤗😁 ~ Mandy
Thanks for showing us around Colombo. I’m always impressed how you both admire colonial architecture. It’s very beautiful but not always appreciated. Cheers. 👋🏻
Hi Lucchesse. 😁. We really enjoyed Colombo and in fact a lot of Sri Lanka is full of colonial gems. One of my favourite remnants of colonial times there is the railways which we will be showing in some detail. Living history! 😍😍
Watching on the tv with IB. I’m sure we had rounded three pin plugs like that in old days UK? There was one in our kitchen in my childhood home by the cooker.
Wow. I’m a new subscriber to your channel ( came from Planet Imo )😊. What a bustling and vibrant city! It’s fascinating. I don’t think I would ever get across those streets though. You’d find me trapped on a corner forever waiting to cross 😂
Welcome over to our Channel, Ayela. Lovely to have you onboard. 😍 Any friend of Imo is a friend of ours! ❤️ It certainly is a vibrant place alright and just crossing the street is an adventure in itself. Sometimes it's better to just shut your eyes and hope for the best. 🤣🤣
I live in Colombo and I learnt about so many places to visit from your video. You guys are always smiling and enjoying things we take for granted. Lovely to see and makes me see Colombo in a new perspective!
Thank you 🙏 We enjoyed our time here so much. It was a very positive experience and all the people we met were kind and friendly towards us. ❤️. We only have good things to say about it. 🙏😍. Looking forward to showing much more. 😁
I have been starting to watch your channel just recently, and now your Sri Lankan series is brilliant. Literally, you're both visiting amazing ancient buildings, and it's beautiful .Be honest. I'm Sri Lankan ,but I have never been such an amazing place. Thank you for showing this incredible places. Subscribed.
Hello and welcome to our channel. 🙏. We've enjoyed Sri Lanka so much and we are really excited to be able to show a lot more of our travels here. We hope you enjoy too. 🙏❤️🇱🇰
12:13 that's the old town hall. 17:47 the white building is the new town hall. The area is actually known as Town Hall (part of Cinnamon Gardens). But we no longer have the "town hall" concept but rather it is now the Colombo Municipal Council, which serves kind of similar functional purpose.
Thanks 🙏 I'd quite like a look inside the new town hall to compare the difference. 😊. I wish we'd spent more time around Cinnamon Gardens. It seems a lovely area. A city like Colombo really deserves at least a week to just scratch the surface. I'm looking forward to returning one day. 🙏❤️
@@FrugalTravellers yes it's a city with so much history, culture, and recreation to offer! Glad your'll went off the beaten track to explore its hidden gems, rather than just limiting yourselves to the posh malls and fancy restaurants, which are available everywhere else in the world.
A quick update...... I thought you'd like to know that this road was reopened yesterday and you can now see the old post office building. It seems to be used by the military now.
Thank you so much for this great advice. 🙏. We missed it this time but we'll make a note of it for next time. 👍. We hope you enjoy our Sri Lanka videos. ❤️🇱🇰
Hello Nisar! The next video to come will be on Monday, and will be an update on my Journey to Wellness. The next Sri Lanka video will be at the same time on Wednesday. Thank you so much for your lovely comments and your support 🤗🇱🇰♥️
British colonialism always leave a water mark of there creation of what they build whether it is a Parliament building or a White House or even a Colonial Hotel with similar architecture, if you take Colombo Parliament building for example the water mark of the building is the statue in front, plus the yellow junction box that you walked through is British design. Funny enough.
We hope you enjoyed this video as much as we enjoyed our time exploring Colombo! Welcome to our channel and thanks for watching. 🙏 Here is the link to our entire Sri Lanka series, so keep watching as there will be many more videos to come from this amazing country!! ❤🇱🇰
Sri Lanka Travel: th-cam.com/play/PLCmNbKU5iMrm1426S5ltprrISCZunP-BF.html
Hello
So much fun! Love Colombo! Wonderful history! Thanks for sharing.
We're so pleased you enjoyed this video, Maria! We loved Colombo, and had such a great time in SriLanka. There'll be loads more videos to come 🤗🇱🇰♥️
As a British Sri lankan, I watch many Sri Lankan vlogger videos and you are right there!!!Excellent!!! Thank you for showing around my country. I live in Poland, so its nice to see your videos
That's so great to hear that you got a lot of pleasure from this video. 😍. There will many more covering many other parts of Sri Lanka during our 7 weeks travelling there. We hope you enjoy them too. 🙏❤️
We spent 4 months in Krakow during the beginning of covid in 2020 and loved it there. 😁
@@FrugalTravellers I live Krakow :) . It is an amazing city. Wish you both safe travels
18:03 Viharamahadevi park used to be Victoria Park back then named after Queen Victoria, they even had a statue of Queen Victoria which was replaced by the Golden Lord Buddha Statue in 1958.
Wow 😳 That is so interesting to learn. Thank you for sharing with us. 🙏. I love it when local people teach us new things. 😊 The Buddha statue is very beautiful. Now I have to learn to say Viharamahadevi because I found it very difficult. 🤣
Thanks for the information. 🙏❤️🇱🇰
The building and church architecture is beautiful. I would be nervous crossing the streets. 😂 A lot of people in Colombo speak English. The price for food and electronic stuff is very reasonable. Mandy and Lee, thank you for sharing the fun and informative video. ❤
Hi Sue 👋😊
Yes it's such a fascinating place with amazing architecture and a really interesting mix of religions. The level of education is high so many people speak English thankfully. 🙏 Prices are incredibly reasonable here so it is really a paradise for the frugal traveller. ❤️🎉🇱🇰❤️
Hello 😃
I’ve just discovered your channel & I am so pleased to see my beautiful Sri Lanka on TH-cam !
I grew up in this beautiful country; Lived 18 beautiful years on this incredible island, and even though I am not Sri Lankan by blood, I am definitely Sri Lankan by heart ❤️
Cannot wait to see what you’ll be exploring next ! I’m sure you’ll love it!
Have fun & stay safe 😊
Emilie x
Hi Emilie and welcome to our channel. 👋. It makes us so happy to know people get a lot out of watching our videos when they watch them. I can understand how you can feel Sri Lankan at heart. It's such a wonderful country. 💕🇱🇰. We are making many more videos of our adventures here so keep watching and we are sure that you will enjoy them. 😍
Best wishes, Lee and Mandy ❤️
Thank you for putting out good imformative content,hope your well
Thank you so much, Julie, and welcome to our channel! It was lovely to see you in the Premiere today, and we really appreciate your positivity and your wonderful feedback! There are loads more Sri Lanka videos to come, and we hope you enjoy them 🤗♥️🇱🇰
Love your videos. Not regular touristy stuff but meaningful content. I was born and brought up in Colombo but never been to the council building 😂
Thank you 🙏. We love to explore the back streets of a place and always look for something different. Travelling slowly allows you to go a little deeper. 😍. We were really surprised about how nice Colombo is. 😊👍
Here before watching the video but I already can tell it's gonna be a nice one I remember watching Harald Baldr videos on markets I believe also Sri Lanka ones, funny and interesting.
Hello Pocahoetaz 👋 It's always so lovely to see your comments. I haven't watched those videos but I'm sure they're very entertaining as Sri Lankan markets are so full on. I hope you enjoy this one 🤗😁 ~ Mandy
Thanks for showing us around Colombo. I’m always impressed how you both admire colonial architecture. It’s very beautiful but not always appreciated. Cheers. 👋🏻
Hi Lucchesse. 😁. We really enjoyed Colombo and in fact a lot of Sri Lanka is full of colonial gems. One of my favourite remnants of colonial times there is the railways which we will be showing in some detail. Living history! 😍😍
@@FrugalTravellersYes, those railways in SL are something to admire. 🚂
Watching on the tv with IB. I’m sure we had rounded three pin plugs like that in old days UK? There was one in our kitchen in my childhood home by the cooker.
Come to think of it, I remember them fron Nan's house. 🤔
Wow. I’m a new subscriber to your channel ( came from Planet Imo )😊. What a bustling and vibrant city! It’s fascinating. I don’t think I would ever get across those streets though. You’d find me trapped on a corner forever waiting to cross 😂
Welcome over to our Channel, Ayela. Lovely to have you onboard. 😍 Any friend of Imo is a friend of ours! ❤️
It certainly is a vibrant place alright and just crossing the street is an adventure in itself. Sometimes it's better to just shut your eyes and hope for the best. 🤣🤣
Nice vlog... Lovely couple..... Enjoy... Love from Sri Lanka
Thank you, Chandana, for your lovely comment! We had an amazing time in Sri Lanka, and there'll be many more videos to come ♥️🇱🇰
Oooh I love sunsets wonderful to see some in the video, Thank You Lee & Mandy
You can't beat a good sunset and this is a perfect place for it. Thanks for watching 🙏❤️
You two are very pleasant to the eyes, always smiling 🥰 Warmly welcome to Sri Lanka 🇱🇰
Thank you so much for your kind words, Thilini 🇱🇰♥️
I live in Colombo and I learnt about so many places to visit from your video. You guys are always smiling and enjoying things we take for granted. Lovely to see and makes me see Colombo in a new perspective!
Thank you 🙏 We enjoyed our time here so much. It was a very positive experience and all the people we met were kind and friendly towards us. ❤️. We only have good things to say about it. 🙏😍. Looking forward to showing much more. 😁
I have been starting to watch your channel just recently, and now your Sri Lankan series is brilliant. Literally, you're both visiting amazing ancient buildings, and it's beautiful .Be honest. I'm Sri Lankan ,but I have never been such an amazing place. Thank you for showing this incredible places. Subscribed.
Hello and welcome to our channel. 🙏. We've enjoyed Sri Lanka so much and we are really excited to be able to show a lot more of our travels here. We hope you enjoy too. 🙏❤️🇱🇰
I'm looking forward to watching Galle seiries.😊
That's great to hear, Kalum! Galle is coming soon 🤗♥️🇱🇰
@@FrugalTravellers...hello
Finally the video 😂👍👍
Hope you enjoyed it. Thanks for coming along. 🙏❤️🇱🇰
@@FrugalTravellers certainly did ❤️🙏
When I return to Sri Lanka for my next holiday, your videos will be my tourist guide ... thankyou.
Thank you so much, Roger. I hope our videos will be of use to you. There are plenty more Sri Lanka videos to come. What an amazing country! 👍😊
12:13 that's the old town hall. 17:47 the white building is the new town hall. The area is actually known as Town Hall (part of Cinnamon Gardens). But we no longer have the "town hall" concept but rather it is now the Colombo Municipal Council, which serves kind of similar functional purpose.
Thanks 🙏 I'd quite like a look inside the new town hall to compare the difference. 😊. I wish we'd spent more time around Cinnamon Gardens. It seems a lovely area. A city like Colombo really deserves at least a week to just scratch the surface. I'm looking forward to returning one day. 🙏❤️
@@FrugalTravellers yes it's a city with so much history, culture, and recreation to offer! Glad your'll went off the beaten track to explore its hidden gems, rather than just limiting yourselves to the posh malls and fancy restaurants, which are available everywhere else in the world.
Great stuff guys loving the vids❤
Thanks for your great comment, Paddy
Always smiling couple♥️
Thank you so much, Vxy 🙏😊🤗
VERY NICE VIDEO. THANK YOU . FROM GERMANY - STUTTGART CITY.
Thank you so much 🙏. We're glad you enjoyed it and hope you will like our further Sri Lanka videos 🙏❤️🇱🇰
Oh wow this is in sri Lanka im also sri Lankan but i don't know this place's thanks for showing ❤
So glad you enjoyed it. We loved our time here. Many more similar videos coming soon. 🙏❤️🇱🇰❤️
Great content
Love from Sri Lanka🇱🇰
Thank you so much, The Explorer. We had such a wonderful time in Sri Lanka, and there are many more videos to come 🇱🇰♥️
@@FrugalTravellers Keep up the positive energy, U guys look lovely ❤️
Waiting for your video ❤👍👍
That's great to hear, Nisar! Looking forward to reading more of your wonderful comments 🤗🇱🇰♥️
@@FrugalTravellers thank you sir 🙏 hope you're all having fun take care God bless you always 🙏❤️
@@nisarpasha3185 Thank you, and the same to you 🤗🙏
Thanks for viciting my country be safe travel
Thank you so much 🙏 it's wonderful to visit Sri Lanka 😍❤️🇱🇰
Another amazing day 🙏🇬🇧
So many to be had in Colombo 😍
In galle please walk down to peddlers street u will love it ❤👍🙏
Thanks for this great tip. We really appreciate it. 🙏❤️
Thanks lots of love you to all ❤
Thank you, Ms Suhaat, for your lovely comment 🙏🤗🇱🇰♥️
A quick update......
I thought you'd like to know that this road was reopened yesterday and you can now see the old post office building. It seems to be used by the military now.
That's so good to hear 👍👍 I really wanted to check out the old post office but wasn't able to. What a great reason to return to Colombo. ☺️❤️🇱🇰
Lovely video ❤
That's so kind, Starr, thank you 🙏 🤗
Wonderful and friendly people
Thank you so much for your lovely comment, Sean 🇱🇰🤗
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Thank you, revolt7. It's always so lovely to hear from you 👋🤗👍
If you in Colombo Visit Modera St James Church Colombo 15. one of the most beautiful church in Sri Lanka and world build by Portuguese style
Thank you so much for this great advice. 🙏. We missed it this time but we'll make a note of it for next time. 👍. We hope you enjoy our Sri Lanka videos. ❤️🇱🇰
@@FrugalTravellers ❤️❤️❤️
Are you guys in England now?
Hello Srimal. We're currently housesitting back in Portugal, and are busy editing all of our Sri Lanka videos, as there's loads more to come 🤗😊
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You are keeping very busy watching our Sri Lanka videos 🤗🇱🇰♥️
Try to go Grand hotel in Nuwara Eliya
Hello Lakshitha. All I can say is keep watching, as the Nuwara Eliya videos will be coming soon... 🇱🇰♥️
When will you post the next video 🥰
Hello Nisar! The next video to come will be on Monday, and will be an update on my Journey to Wellness. The next Sri Lanka video will be at the same time on Wednesday. Thank you so much for your lovely comments and your support 🤗🇱🇰♥️
@@FrugalTravellers thank you so much will wait for your video 💕 take care of maam and u take care too God bless you on your journey 🙏
Waw ❤ vegetarians food i would like too most of spicy
Delicious spicy vegetarian food. It's so good. ❤️😋
Love from srilanka ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you 🙏🙏 we ❤️🇱🇰😁
Wow this looks just like typical south Indian cities... I'm amazed how similiar we are 😯
Yes I think that is so true. So many similarities. 🙏. We haven't been in India since 1996 but I'm sure it is still very similar. We loved Kerala. ❤️
@@FrugalTravellers but to be honest Sri Lanka is more clean.
Once you return your country, please show the same kindness and respect our people given you to all brown-skin immigrants there. Thank you.
Hello dd. That goes without saying... politeness and kindness to all people is an essential part of life.
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Thanks 🙏❤️🇱🇰
Hi
Hello Fathi 👋😊🙏
Uluthu vadai
Ah, the donut like things. I just looked it up. Thank you so much 🙏❤️
British colonialism always leave a water mark of there creation of what they build whether it is a Parliament building or a White House or even a Colonial Hotel with similar architecture, if you take Colombo Parliament building for example the water mark of the building is the statue in front, plus the yellow junction box that you walked through is British design.
Funny enough.
This is so true. One of my favourite buildings is Victoria station in Bombay/Mumbai. A true work of art. ❤️